The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-11-24
4 VALIANT FIGHT.
How X ochester, n. Z, wrestled With the
Telephone and W IN!

Telephone and W IN!
Rochester, N. Y, is the only city
in the United States which does
not generally use the Bell tele-
phone!
On the 10th of November, 1886,
about seven hundred subscribers
hung up their phones, and they
have been hung us since!
1t is most noteworthy fight
with corporation ever known.
The cause of it was the attempt
of the local Bell company (whose
officers all lived in another city, to
exact rate per message from the
subscribers, instead of a 'sf1at rate
The people resisted it, the courts
sustained the position that the Ii
cense was revokable at will, the
Common Council revoked it. The
company ignored this action, and
without permission, erected poles
in the streets and strung additional
wires; but the courts held that this
was unlawful.
According to the message rate, a
house like H. III. Warner & Co.,
proprietors of Warmers safe RENE.
dies, who were among the heaviest
patrons, would have to pay some
thing like 81, 900 year for the same
telephone service as before.
For Il city of $4,000 people,
Rochester has made a good many
sensations. Sam Patch and his
deadly leap, the Fox sisters spiri
1ual rappings, Stewards "Irrepress-
ible conflict" speech, Susan B. An
thongs attempt TO vote, the come
tary discoveries of DR.. Swift, of
Warner observatory, have each
made the city the "talk of the
WORLD" she leads in the manufact-
ure of proprietary medicine, and
her immense nursery, shoe and
clothing interests puts her in the
| front rank.
The origin of one OF her greatest
| industries is interesting:
About ten years ago one OF her
foremost citizens was struck down
in the very heighth of successful
business career, with what his doc
tors said was an incurable disease.
They gave him up to die. He then
used what is now known as War
ner's safe cure, and since then has
developed as the worlds great
champion Of the people against the
assumed monopoly of physicians
over the treatment OF disease!
His fight, too, had been deter
mined one, and as successful as de
termined To day he is the head
of the largest proprietary medicine
business in the world, having
branch houses and laboratories in
London, England; Toronto, Can
ada; Melbourne, Victoria; Sydney
New South Wales; Frankfort,
! Germany; Prague, Austria; Ran
| COON, Burmah.
Many fereign governments will
not permit the manufacture and
sale of proprietary medicines of any
name or nature until their formula
value and harmlessness are estab.
lished by them, after the most
searching scientific inquiries. In
every case Warmers safe cure has
passed examination with the high
est satisfaction TO the sovcrnmen,
chemists and analysts, and in the
sought-for permission has been
granted, which no other Amcriccr
has before secured.
| This confirms the magnilicen
reputation given it by leading ply
sicians, ministers, senators, con
gressmen, lawyers and ladies of ths
world. "Its secret of success" say.
the leading physician at Clifton
| Springs. N. Y, sanitarium, ''is til.
simplicity of its compounds ant
the proportions in which they arr
compounded
| GLOW do the people get on7"
! The universal verdict is: "W,
don't miss the phone, except t.
our proftlo
| There has been practically n
break in the united opposition BE-
fgun last November.